Tehachapi High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Tehachapi, CA)

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Present Board of Trustees M. A. GARR1soN ED. H. MCDANIEL W. R. POWERS R. F. GRIFFIN FRANK BRITE To the trusteesfof the Tehachapi Valley Union High School District, both past and present, we owe a great debt of gratitude. It was largely due to the untiring work of the first board of trustees that We owe the success of our school. This board, composed of W. L. Davis, Pres., Frank A. Wolfskill, Secty., Hazel P. Culley, Ed. H. McDaniel, and R. F. Griffin, gave their time freely to make possible our school. On the present board of trustees we have two of the original members: Ed. H. McDaniel and R. F. Griffin. The other members are W. R. Powers, M. A. Garrison, and Frank Brite. Leonard T. Jenkins also served on the board'for part of last term. To the 'present board we also owe a great deal because it was due to the r untiring work and enthusiasm that our school was kept going. After one bond proposal had failed, they brought before the people another one, and convinced them that it must be put over. This bond proposal carried by a'large majority. So we have nothing further to worry aboutg our school is bound to increase every year in the future, as it has this last one. NINE .. .-..n .1353 ,fn Q Y v H fi i i f . Q ,dv-iii 1 ..Hf' .w ea .re .1 .. is 1 ,-

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School History QQ? Last year Mr. Imhof came to Tehachapi to start our High School. He began by seeing the trustees who consented to let him teach, provided he could get a certain number of pupils interested, enough to start the school if one were provided for them. With quite a little effort on Mr. Imhof's part, the required number of pupils were found and the first successful High School in Tehachapi, opened its doors to the pupils in September, 1928. The building for the High School consisted of a common residential house. Mr. Imhof and one other teacher, Miss Jones, completed the members of the faculty. Considering the building for the high school and the many disadvan- tages to contend with by both teachers, and students, the High School was very successful, enough so to bring the idea of a real school before the people. Much of the credit for bringing this idea into reality, must be given to Mr. Imhof, because it was on account of the hard work on his part to convince the people that we needed a high school, here in Tehachapi, that the school was built. Bonds were voted on and carried by enough majority in favor to make building of the school possible. Contracts were let and the fine school that We now have was ready for business by the beginning of this school termg thus adding a great asset to Tehachapi. 1 sic:-rr f h .- W.

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CONGRATULATIONS l It is with a considerable degree of pleasure and satisfaction that I avail myself of this opportunity to extend congratulations to the editor, manager and staff of The Tomahawk upon their creditable eiorts in creat- ing this, the first annual publication of the Tehachapi Valley Union High School. The importance of this undertaking will not be fully realized until years have passed, and student editors will search back to ascertain where tradition-that guiding star of scholastic activities-began, and to learn of the environment in which it had its beginning. Although I have been actively identified with the school since its in- ception as a major progresssive project of the Tehachapi News late in 1927 up to a year ago, it is difficult for me to realize the institution is a reality and that its success even exceeds my fondest expectations during the strenuous and at times uncertain period of its organization. A great deal of hard Work and sacrifice on the part of a few men and women in the beginning, and later the splendid co-operation of the district as an entity, have given you your school. Now it is your obligation and your privilege, aided by your faculty, to carefully form policies for the fuidance of future student bodies, to build a school spirit of fairness, sportsmanship and enthusiasm, and, most important, individually to take the fullest advantage of the educational opportunities it affords. Character-the intangible qualities of disposition by which a person is known and judged-is largely molded by these years spent in prepara- tory school, preparatory not necessarily to still higher academic education, but to life itself. Youth, as a rule, is too busily engrossed in the all- important affairs of the moment to give much serious thought to the future, but it is Well occasionally to consider these thingsp The long-time planning policies formulated by the original trustees included beautification of high school premises as speedily as economic conditions would permit, and I am sure the present and future officials will not abandon this eiort, especially as railroad and motor traffic is ever increasing. To me, this is the most important problem by which this and other boards will be confronted. It undoubtedly will be several years before the financial importance of the school to the district will be fully realized, but its moral influence is spreading rapidly throughout the community's daily life. An elevated social plane is always attendant upon the inauguration of an institution of this kind. The greatest beneficiaries, perhaps, will be the students of today- they who tomorrow will carry on the commercial, industrial and social activities-for a greater change will have taken place in their lives than in those to follow, to whom a high school education shall be a foregone conclusion. W. L. DAVIS, JR. First President of the Board T. V. U. H. S. TEN